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E.S.-LE NOX. WIRE BALE TIE.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWIN S. LENOX, OF WORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE WASHBURN & MOEN MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

WIRE BALE-TIE.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 272,691, dated February 27, 1883.

7 Application filed December 6, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN S. LENOX, of the city and county of Worcester, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wire Bale-Ties; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, formingapart of this speci tication, and in which Figure 1 represents a sectionyof one end of the bale-tie as it appears in the process of manufacture, as will be hereinafter more fully described. Fig. 2 represents the parts shown in Fig. 1 as they appear atanoth er step in the process of manufacture. Fig. 3 represents a side view of the parts shown in Fig. 2 as they appear atstill another step in the pro- Fig. 4 represents the two ends of the bale-tie as they appear when fastened or secured together in the process of baling hay and other material, as will be hereinafter more fully described; and Fig. 5 represents the parts shown in Fig. 4bet'ore the free end G isin'serted through the loop H and wound .about the body of the tie.

To enable those skilled in the art to which my invention belongs to make and use the same, I will proceed to describe it more in detail.

My invention relates to the construction of wire bale-ties; and it. consists in having aloop formed upon one end of the tie, in the manner to be hereinatter fully described,theother end ofthe tie being free to pass through said looped end.

In the drawings, the part marked A represents a section of the body of thebale-tie with the end B bent back parallel to the body of the tie A, as shown in Fig.1. This is the first step in the manufacture of the tie after the wire has been cut into the proper lengths.-

The next step in the process of manufacture of my improved tie consists in intertwisting the end B with the body of the tie A in such a manner as to leave the opening or eye C, as fully shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings. The next step is to bend back the double end D, so that it will take the position shown in Fig. 3 and form. the hook E, the end a of said hook extending beyond the opening or eye 0. The last step in the manufacture of tny bale-tie consists in bending down the end a, of the double end D and inserting it through the eye 0, and then bending or pressing it down to form the hook F, as clearly shown in Fig. 4, by which last operation theconstruction ot' the wire bale-tie is completed and it is ready for use.

In forming the loop H in the manner above described the bend E. on which the strain comes when the other end of the tie IS Passed through the loop H and wound hick on the body of the tie and pressure removed from the bale, is rendered very etfective, since the hook F is held very securely in the opening 0.

In using my improved bale-tie it is passed around the bale, after the same has been sufficiently compressed, and the free end G passed through the loop H, formed by the bend E and hook F, as already described, and then bent back upon itself and, wound about the bandwire A, as fully shown in Flg. 4, whereby the two ends are securely fastened together.

A modification of my improved bale-tie may be made by taking aforeign piece of wire and using it in place of the end B and intertwisting this foreign piece with the body of the tie A,in the satne manner as previously described, when the end B is turned back, and then proceeding with the manufacture of the tie by the same steps as already described without departing from the principle of my invention.

Having describedmy improvements in wire bale-ties, what I claim therein as new and of my invention, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-- A wire bale-tie provided at one end with the loop H, formed by the bend E, and hook F, inserted in theopening C, whereby the bend E, when the end Got l he tieisinserted through the loop H and wound back on the body of the tie, isrendered Very elfectivein resisting the strain thereon after the bale is removed from the press, all substantially as shown and described.

EDW. S. LENOX. Witnesses:

SARAH E. LENoX, JOHN U. DEWEY. 

